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Sorry, I'm just trying to be quick. I'm trying to move with alacrity.
Okay, yeah. Let's do it.
Okay, so I'm Sean. I'm Will.
Are we late for our guest or something? No, it's just we've got to get to the show. It's like people are waiting to get to the show and then they've got to get through this BS first.
So we're trying to get to the thing. It's smartless.
Go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go. What if people are watching this at night and they are listening to it at night and they're watching anything.
They're listening to you. What if to you fucking idiot.
Just fucking start the show. Welcome to Smart.
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Listener, Will's in what we call a whisper booth in the biz where he's got a sort of a fold-up, sort of a fabric closet that he can do all his VO work remotely wherever he is on the planet. For some reason, he's got a white stick, one that a person without sight might use.
right. What is that for? Go ahead, Will.
It's a light. Oh, it's a light.
For what? It's a light. To light yourself? No, it's just like a light fixture that I don't use, and it's in the background.
So sometimes you see this part, the white part of it, and it makes Jason crazy. Not sometimes.
Always. Sean, I don't know if you noticed, we had a meeting the other day, the three of us, with somebody else, right? Yes.
And during the meeting, I saw it out of the corner of my eye and I brought it into frame just because I knew it made Jason crazy. Listen, it will, obviously.
It is not your fault. You're doing nothing wrong.
I'm just, it's more of a comment on how crazy I am. Wow.
This is unbelievable growth from you. Yeah.
Right, Sean? I kind of wish it wasn't a lamp. I wish it was something else, that you needed it to get something from off a high shelf or something.
Oh, right. Maybe you were losing your sight and you just wanted to have the stick nearby in case it takes full hold at some point.
No, no, no. I mean, I'm blessing that.
Sorry, Sean. I feel like you've got something you really need to talk about.
I do. I really got some really great news.
Okay. I got an antibodies test yesterday to see where I am with my antibodies.
Off the charts. Really? Super strong antibodies.
Did you guys get tested? I did. I got tested recently.
You get tested all the time. No, no, but for your antibodies.
Is that a separate test? Yeah. Yes.
Yeah. I have been tested for antibodies.
It's good, right? It's good. I mean, you've been vaccinated.
Makes me feel real safe. Yeah, I'm vaccinated.
Sean's vaccinated. No, I know, but the antibodies are the next thing.
I vaccinated Sean. Yeah.
Huh. He doesn't trust anybody with a needle but me.
Right. And he does it, he comes over at night to put me to sleep with some extra special something.
Yeah, yeah. Pro-ball.
What is it, Will? Pro-ball. Go ahead.
I don't know. Let's get the rest out.
I can't. And you guys do that on a drip or is it a tablet or? No, it's a drip.
It's a drip. Does he ever cook it up for you? And you can just kind of smoke it? In a spoon.
Sometimes. You guys are the worst.
You're the worst. Yeah.
I miss you guys. I got to say, I really miss you guys.
I know. We haven't seen each other in quite a while.
I'm sorry. I miss you too.
You guys are warming me up. I've come onto this episode in a bad mood this morning.
No, it's okay. Well, listen, I love you guys, and I'm happy that we have, that our guest today is some, I'm really excited about it.
Hopefully this guest is a ray of sunshine, can bring me from my gold. Well, I can say he is.
Now, I've never met this guy, but from what I know, he is a ray of sunshine. Is that what it said on his breakdown when you swiped left? That's what it said.
The first line in his profile. Hello, I'm a ray of sunshine.
I'm a fan of this guy for a while now. And Jason, you're kind of responsible for it in a way, and you'll find out why in a second.
And I'm so excited. And I kept asking, like, what is the day that he's coming on? What's the day he's coming on? Because I'm so excited.
He's got great energy about him, which is one of the things I really liked when I was watching him do what he does was his energy. But on top of that, he's really good at what he does.
In fact, he's incredible, and I can't imagine doing what he does. Our friend is an Australian.
He's from Down Under. David Blaine.
No. He has won a number of big championships in what it is that he does.
Uh-oh. He has been at the top of his game for 10 years since he moved from Australia to Europe to pursue becoming the world's greatest race car driver.
He's won so many Grand Prixs, including the Monaco Grand Prix. I don't want to wait any longer.
Our guest is Daniel Ricciardo. Oh, my gosh.
Formula One driver, Daniel. Look at this guy.
Oh, my goodness. Hello, Daniel.
Look at this. This is a big star, you guys.
This is, I am starstruck. Wow.
Oh, Will, you must be. Will, do you have anything on underneath frame? It's just the shirt today, I'll bet, right? It is.
God, Will's a big F1 fan listener. Do you know each other from before this? No, we've never met.
Daniel, what a pleasure. Let me just start by saying, Daniel, welcome to SmartList.
We're so excited to have you. It's a pleasure to meet you.
How are you? I'm very well. I'm very well, thanks.
This is awesome. That was a quite an intro and i've got pressure on now i'm supposed to be a ray of sunshine so i'll give it my best look at the smile look at the teeth and the smile what a great smile you guys your smile is incredible it's the greatest smile in in formula one potentially in all of sport so much so that you should be allowed to race without a helmet.
Just so we can see it. Always.
Going around the turn, smiling. 200 miles an hour.
Yeah, they love it. Oh, my God.
So what part of the world do we have you in? Listener, if you're not familiar with Formula One, these rock stars travel around the world to do these races every other weekend, I want to say, because they wouldn't be able to do it every weekend because the apparatus that they have to put on these, you know, big, huge 747s, I think one, I think you get a 747 per team. We're going to find out.
We're going to find out. But I mean, anyway, so where are you in the world? I'm in Monaco at the moment.
So Monaco is like, uh,'s a little bit of a hub for – Tax haven? I guess race car drivers and that, yeah. Any other athletes live there? Any other rich people looking to save a bit there? There's a lot of cyclists and tennis players.
Yeah, and a lot of like German counts and stuff like that. So, Daniel, so you're in Monaco.
That's your home base. You grew up in Australia.
You grew up in Perth, Australia, right? On the West Coast. And you got into, tell us a little bit about how you got in.
How did you become a Formula One driver? Yeah, I want to know everything. From a person who is in Perth, Australia to to formula one what was that trajectory like how did how old were you when you started etc yeah it's absolutely one of the most weird sports yeah um so it basically started in go-karting yeah oh really but it was more like as a kid like i loved i just like going fast like i loved the adrenaline of even if it was more like, as a kid, I loved, I just liked going fast.

I loved the adrenaline of, even if it was like riding a push bike down a hill, all that sort of stuff.

I was just like, let me go fast because that's what I enjoy to do.

And when I was eight, nine years old, I basically begged mom and dad to get me a go-kart.

And at the time, it was just to like, maybe after school some days, they'll take me down to the track and just let off some steam. But let me ask you this.
Even before that, because they all look like Hot Wheels, right? They all look like those little kind of cars that you race like at home. Did you ever play with those? Oh, yeah.
I was like a massive nerd for that sort of stuff. So it went from that to go-karts.
But were you a kid, like when you were a baby? I'll tell you why I'm asking this. So my toddler, my son who's 14 months old, and I have two older boys.
I've never seen anything like it. He's obsessed with his first word was car.
He wakes up in the morning. He points to outside.
He wants to go in the car. And I'm not joking.
The last two weeks has been I take him out and he wants to sit in the – stand in the driver's seat. And he holds on to the steering wheel.
And he's good for 25 minutes. And he says like four words.
It's all he wants is to be in a car. What was the second word? Lawsuit.
Lawsuit. Lawsuit, strangely.
So, Will, you're in trouble. Not for the lawsuit, for the car stuff.
Yeah. Yeah, and I kind of left out some information in the first part.
So my dad loved cars. He raced a little bit, not professionally, but just as a hobby, I guess.
Sean, your dad was pretty good at driving pretty fast away from the home. Sorry.
Some say, some say if you listen closely, you can hear still. You can hear the engine receding, peeling away.
Yeah. The screech carries.
Yeah. Go ahead.
Even before I came on, I was just listening, obviously. I could listen and just, I'm sure you guys have a lot of uh banter let's say we're just we're just we're just such bored people with very and too much caffeine in the most boring dumb people on three narcissists that like to hear their own voice so your dad we're not even letting you talk please so your dad was a car your dad was into racing a little bit not professionally and you were like at an early age you like, let me upstage my dad.
Go on, continue your words. Yeah.
So I, so I guess like the truth is if he had the opportunity to race when he was young, I'm sure he would have, like it was, it was his passion. And still to this day, like he knows more about cars than I do.
Like he's, he's the proper, proper enthusiast. And I'm, I mean, loves doing, I mean, yeah, I won't sell myself short.
I grew up watching it on TV when I was, yeah, probably like your son at two, three years old. And it was like the noise.
It was the, and then if I'll go to the racetrack to watch dad, it was the smell. Like there was so many, so many kinds of senses that I was just in love with.
Yeah. Jason, you like, you like to smell, you like to we call sniff gasoline, right? It's actually, it's huffing.
That's how he gets up in the morning. Right.
And then, and Sean, and then you're, there was alcohol, right? And then the sound of the door shutting, and then the exhaust, you can smell the exhaust as it is receding. And just a very distant, fuck you.
Wait, so Daniel, so you do go-karting. Your parents take you out.
All of a sudden, what age was it that people in Perth were like, you know, check this guy. He's gotten really, really fast.
This guy should be going to Formula One. Like what was that moment that people had that conversation? When they said crikey.
Just like I did. Yeah.
Who said crikey first? Who said this bogan should be racing overseas? Your accent's good. So yeah, from when I was pretty much born, I had a passion for it and a love for it.
But I think even through like my teenage years, so I was racing go-karts, but I wasn't, maybe I didn't have like massive self-confidence at that point. I was winning some races, but I wasn't the, I wasn't like dominating the Australian scene, so to speak.
I was one of like the guys, but not the one. So then I was kind of like, all right, if I'm not like dominating in Australia, how am I going to take it to Europe where the real hub is for motorsport, at least for Formula One related? So I basically got to, I was probably like 16 and I was really enjoying racing more than anything else I was doing.
And at school, I wasn't really… Focusing on your studies? studies sorry you weren't really focusing on your studies well I tried kind of yeah sure you're looking at me really seriously well no I mean Jason for listen honestly for Jason his studies were in the back of a trailer on the Warner Brothers lot so like that was he understands what i'm saying you know how you know make sure

you're in your key light and don't shadow the other actor and all that other stuff yeah and

you know lunchtime we're you know going into grace he understood all this stuff as part of

his school experience so so you're not striving at school you're 16 you're not the number one guy

in australia are you even the number one guy in western australia i was definitely up there like

i was in the group and i guess the i guess long long story short, I probably hit a point where I kind of just started like finishing school 16, 17. And I kind of flipped a bit of a switch in terms of just like personal maturity.
I kind of grew up and I was quite like young, immature. What's that like? I'm still figuring it out.
How old are you now? 32. Okay.
Yeah. Yeah.
And then I had kind of, there was a moment where I was like, all right, I'm going to go all in on this. And I did like a one-off race in Europe.
And I think that was my, in a way, my fear was kind of thinking that the European guys were so much better. And I kind of had no chance.
And I surprised myself when I did this race. I finished fifth out of, I don't know, probably 35.
And it was kind of like the best of my age group at the time. And then that was like, all right.
So I moved to Europe the following year and basically went all in. You're one of those people.
This is the heart of a champion. You needed more competition.
You needed it because those you weren't getting it. And look, this is not a slight to your countrymen down in Oz, but it kind of is.
They weren't giving you the competition that you needed. You needed to go to the big leagues.
And once you got there, that kind of it kind of awoke something inside you. And you're like, oh, I can do this.
And once you you had that first taste of success it probably you probably never looked back a little bit in terms of confidence right I'm guessing yeah like a hundred percent that that race gave me so much more um because like for us we put like Europe on a pedestal as far as the motor racing and so when I was like yeah I was kind of convinced myself I could do it. So then when I moved to Europe, I was like, I was so disciplined, so strict.
And a few other guys, whether they were from Australia or from other parts of the world, let's say not Europe. Yeah.
There were some young kids who were kind of living. I was living in Italy at the time and there was a few living there as well.
There was like a training kind of facility.

And yeah, like I could see the tendency like, okay, we're away from family, away from our parents.

We're 17 years old and there was a bit of partying and this and that.

And I was just, I was like, no.

I'm here to win.

Yeah, I don't know.

I just, as I said, I kind of flipped a switch and yeah, that was the best.

I want to go back to, because you think I'm joking, but I'm not.

I really, really, really do want to do one of those things where you buy like an hour around a racetrack or something.

You know, you go to those racetracks and you can race yourself. I really do want to try that.
What was that like the very, very first time? Did you do it at your dad's, where your dad raced? Like, did you get in a car by yourself? And he said, okay, great, let's just try this. And what was that like? so it's like the the one word i'll associate racing with is

is yourself and he said okay great let's just try this and what was that like so it's like the the one word i'll associate racing with is freedom especially at a young age you know like you're controlling this machine and even though like you got a helmet on you know you still get some like some of the wind in your face and it's like it's a it's a free feeling and that's that's what it was talk to me about the the euphoria of freedom and controlling that machine and gliding through the turns. You have to marry that with a management of fear, too, because to really compete, you've got to sort of live on that, sort of the limits of adhesion, right, where the tire will sort of, you're pressing it too far and the tire loses adhesion to the road and you spin off and you'll hit the wall.
So you have to constantly feel that, literally, in your seat, where the car is and risk going just a little bit further, a little bit deeper into the turn and all that stuff. How do you, is it, are you just not worried about it? Tell me about that.
Yeah, and by the way, Daniel, and Jason knows this because he actually won the Long Beach Celebrity. He beat Richard Klein from Three's Company and Tommy Kataim in a qualifying.
It was incredible. I don't know if you've seen the replay.
I think you're actually right with those names. He's done a little bit of racing himself.
Back before gasoline was invented. But what is that fear? Is that real? So I'm not blowing smoke, but the way you put that forward was beautiful.
Let him finish, guys. I would have guessed you were an engineer or something.
How did you? I started at Pirelli and then i discovered acting but um i'm confused because that was really that was quite quite something well and i i am always interested how you can tell when you drive with somebody whether they are when they're steering a car whether they're trying to literally just stay in between the lanes and so they're constantly adjusting the wheel to stay in the middle of the lane where some people drive, they're looking much further down the road and they're just kind of generally going in that direction and they're kind of gliding a little bit and they're kind of at one with the car. You can just see it just driving around on the streets.
And is that kind of how you, you just kind of marry yourself to that seat and the whole car and you are one thing or, or is it much more technical than that? No, you basically nailed it. That's really good awareness.
So we have, yeah, you should fist pump. Yeah, this is great.
I guess. I mean, what the fuck are you talking about? By the way, I know you live in Los Angeles part of the time.
So next time, if you feel like some eyes burning in the back of your head, it's Jason watching you drive.

I just watch you.

So tell me what you do with that fear. What do you do with that fear? You just put it behind you because you can't win with it? Yeah, pretty much.
I think because, I mean, the first time you get into a go-kart, so for me, eight years old, you're aware of already like the risk and the danger. And so that fear is something now that I've lived with my whole, let's say,

right now. aware of already like the risk and the danger.
And so I, that, that fear is something now that I've called it lived with my whole, let's say racing career. And it's somewhere in the back.
And I think sometimes like you'd need a little bit of that. Let's access it today.
Let's access the fear today. Let's get right into it.
Will likes to make guests cry. What about, what about when you're driving these really, really expensive cars? I mean, the go-karts were expensive at eight, I'm sure, but now you really have a good sense of what a dollar is worth.
And these cars are multimillion dollar cars. You go into a turn and you get loose.
There's hundreds of thousands of dollars of damage done on that. What's that process like? I mean, obviously some crashes are assumed and there's a backup car and all that stuff.
But the day after or the week after, is there ever like a little like, can we talk to you for a second? You know, the budget this year, you've crashed four times. It's cost us $14 million.
Are you ever talked to about like your responsibility for the crashes and the money and all that stuff? Does that happen? Fortunately, I don't do it often. So I haven't had that.
But that sounds really like arrogant. No, but does it happen? Do you hear about it in your industry that a driver will get pulled aside or be asked to leave a team because they're just costing them too much money? Yeah, I think there's like the difference of being reckless.
And then there's the difference of exploring the limit. And I a team will especially in the early days like a team will respect you for okay not crashing every weekend but if you do have a crash every so often but because you're testing the limit and really trying to get everything out of yourself in the car yeah yeah or that particular setup on the car with suspension or tires or whatever they would go, he's just trying to see where it goes.
Exactly. Speaking of that, so what do you think about, and again, we can totally take this out, Daniel.
But just what do you think about a couple weeks ago, I think it was at Silverstone, when, you know, when Lewis made that move on Verstappen. And Verstappen ended up crashing out like that was a very aggressive move by Lewis and people calling him out and saying that he did not make the right move in that moment.
Well, they're racing in that moment. That's kind of what they're there to do.
Do you agree with that? Or was, do you think somebody was being too aggressive? Let's get Sean's opinion first. Well, I want to know if you'd want to know what race car backwards is.
Uh-oh, Here we come. Race car.
Yeah, thanks. Hey.
Go ahead. Answer Will's question.
What's that called? That's called a palindrome? Yeah. Yeah.
Great. That's all I was thinking about.
There's the part we'll cut out. So, but, you know, like, but it goes to sort of the crashing and stuff and being aggressive in those moments.
And that was something that just happened the last couple of weeks. What do you think about aggressive driving like that, like that particular moment? So I'll go to that one and then I'll kind of talk about it in general.
So that one was, you'd call it like a racing incident, I think because, so those two have been going at it all year so they're

they're currently fighting for the championship and they've been pushing the absolute edge with

each other and it was kind of i feel everyone felt like it was inevitable at some point we got 20

something races this year at some point they're gonna have a moment so i think that was it and

it all obviously happened so quick i mean we've been doing it our whole life so we need to be

able to let's say cope with it but yeah there's still there's a lot of especially the first lap

Thank you. it and it all obviously happens so quick i mean we've been doing it our whole life so we need to be able to let's say cope with it but yeah there's still there's a lot of especially the first lap of the race which which it was that's like the most intense lap of the race you know you've got to start you've got all kind of like the energy and uh and the atmosphere of the crowd you got to get through that first turn right sean yeah you got to really pull it tight around you got to understand too like for for and and and and for Daniel I don't want to speak for you but so Daniel Ray he came up with Toro Rosso which is owned by Red Bull and then became a Red Bull driver for a number of years and had success in fact won Monaco and a bunch of other races under driving for the Red Bull team and then he moved and now he races for McLaren so he has a history with those guys and and with Max Verstappen.
So there's like, you guys all know each other. You guys have been racing with, for, against each other.
Like there's a lot of, it's like being in a big, huge extended family in a way, I bet. Right? It is.
And there's only, I mean, there's 20 of us in the world. Like there's 20 F1 drivers per year.
That's it. That's crazy.
Maybe a couple seats will get changed each year. So you are spending a lot of time with kind of the current group.
And yeah, you get to obviously know each other a bit and this and that. But I think being like overaggressive and all of that sort of stuff, that was actually one of my,'s say weaknesses or downfalls kind of growing up and and when I got to Formula One is I was kind of intimidated just by being there and who I was racing against and I wasn't aggressive enough and I kind of got I got kind of mauled um you know a few times and it was it was kind of like yeah I can if I qualify well that's nothing if I'm just going to get eaten up on Sunday in the race so you know, a few times.
And it was, it was kind of like, yeah, I can, if I qualify well, that's nothing if I'm just going to get eaten up on Sunday in the race. So, you know, I then certainly switched my mentality to it all.
And again, I think a team will always respect you for having a go as opposed to, you know, like this isn't the sport to sit back and be complacent. And now a word from our sponsors.
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When I was a kid, I would watch race car driving. My brother, Mike, loves racing.
Used to, for his birthday, I would buy him like, you know, racing around the tracks and stuff. He lives for it.
Lived for it. He passed away, but hold for laughs.
And so... Wow.
No, he's great. He would have laughed at that.
Your dad didn't run him over with the car leaving. No.
He didn't. He was a great brother.
I love him very much. But he loved race car driving.
But when I was a kid, I was like... I don't know you well enough to it's okay to laugh because otherwise you'll cry oh please laugh yes it would he would love us talking about him he would love us laughing about him he was the best brother ever okay so anyway when i was a kid he would be he would make me watch race car driving and i was like as a kid i don't get it they push the gas and they go around what's the skill right right and so and i've heard other people say that of course now that i'm older and i understand it there's tremendous skill about it there's tremendous talent behind it but what do you say to those people who don't quite understand that it's way more than that like especially kids who can't understand it yeah and, and even, I guess even like grownups, like I'm not mad about it.
And because it's simple, like no one can really do it in terms of, like even me, if I wanted to drive my F1 car today, I couldn't, like it's, you know, so no one can really relate because it's just racing is such a niche thing. And, you know, like we can run around on a basketball court and understand that that is a physical sport.
You know, like we can, we can do it and understand the stresses on your body. Sean, that's the one with the, with the hoop and the net.
Oh, got it. Let me write it.
I tried to use like an American sport, I guess. Sure.
But yeah, but racing, you know, like if, if they watch us on TV, it's like, well, yeah, I drive my car to work every day. So it's, it's kind of the same, just faster.
But, um, what kind of car do you drive to work every day? Well, now it's a McLaren, which I'm pretty excited about. Yeah.
That's nice. Now you can't really open that thing up in Monaco, right? I mean, the fastest anybody drives on those streets is when they close it off for that race.
And even when that racetrack is all set up, it's very hard to pass on that track, really any track that you guys are on. Because, listener, Formula One is all road courses.
So you're turning left, you're turning right, you know, whereas like NASCAR is a big circle or an oval. And one might think that a driver would get dizzy because they're just going around.
So it's much easier to pass in that situation. And Sean, just so you know, so by the way, I came to know you, Daniel, I think in a way that a lot of other, especially North American viewers got to know you was on the Netflix show.
13 Reasons Why? 13 Reasons Why I Drive. Drive to survive.
Drive to survive. Drive to survive.
Drive to survive. And so, and by the way, you're the most personable guy in Formula One by a long shot.
And I don't want to get into naming names, but there are some real duds out there. And- There is, there is.
Yeah, oh my God, it must be fucking, it must be, God, you have to suffer some of these fools. And there's some really cool guys.
You know who I like a lot? And tell me if I'm wrong. I like that guy Toto who runs Mercedes.
Yeah. He seems like a really cool character, right? He's a cool guy.
He's cool. He's definitely got a presence.
Yeah. But he's, I would say, very, very good at what he does.
How much socializing is there between teams? Like when you guys get to a destination, are teams, are drivers hanging out and going to dinner and stuff like that? Or does everyone kind of stay with their own team for the most part? Yeah, not much. Like maybe after a race, if we're staying there the Sunday night for whatever and there might be like a, call it a party or something, like you might end up having a drink with another driver but it's it's funny it's a very individual sport yeah yet it's not because our team like mclaren has two cars yeah and there's probably 800 people as part of that team itself so it's you and lando norris for instance who's the other driver for mclaren this year do you guys spend a lot of time together? No.
Away from the track, no. No.
And I imagine that's common, right? Most drivers, even if you're on the same team, don't really hang out with one another, yeah? You just end up kind of staying to yourself. I say stay to yourself.
Like, I do get on with other drivers, but it's... You're talking to your mechanics and your team, the rest of your team that's, yeah? Yeah, like on a race weekend, yeah, if we were to go out for dinner, it's, yeah, you kind of take like your mechanics and your race engineers to dinner and then I'll have like my little kind of personal crew, whether it's my trainer and my agent or whatever.
Oh, nice. You got like an F1 entourage.
Sure. I want to go back to the 800 people.
There's 800 people per team. Sean, you can't believe the apparatus.
But why so many people? Like, what do they do? It's so, there's like... I mean, you don't have to tell me what each one of them does.
Yeah, you need them all to travel to each one of these. Talk to us about how that, like, is there a plane? Is there a 747, like an air transport thing where you put all the cars on it? The touring bus that you need in the paddock.
Like, how do you get everything all over the world? I guess, like, within Europe, you guys can drive around in trucks. But if you're going from Hungary and then you've got to go to Australia, how does that happen? So that's all through flight.
And I'm pretty sure DHL has been, like like a partner of f1 for years and years so they that's all managed through them but um oh so so each team doesn't have their own cargo transport plane you you guys kind of sub that out with these i believe so bigger cargo carriers i believe so i should probably know but yeah i'm pretty sure but like so after a race the cars will get stripped down, put into big containers, and then away they go. At a race weekend, there's a limited amount of personnel per team.
So I think it's roughly maybe 80 that will travel, like part of the traveling circus per team. But then, yeah, at the factory, there's aerodynamicists there's strategy engineers there's like it's it's wild and then and then because it's a business the only track we have here in the u.s is in austin right in texas yes yeah yeah and then we're going to miami next year as well are you going to miami oh that'll be fun i can't wait to be there as your guest daniel so that was so nice of you daniel thank you i'm gonna be in the going to be in the pit.
You need me in the pit. I've been in the pit during a couple of Formula One races back in the day.
It's so nerve-wracking because at least for me, I just felt like there are certain things you can't see as a guest. Really? Yeah, you get inside the garages like there's private stuff in there about the way they set stuff up and so you're afraid you might look at the wrong thing it's so loud pictures and stuff yeah there's little pictures uh i was i was buddies with jacques vilna for a half a second and no way but yeah invited me and my buddy to um the race in germany the race in monaco um and you've done a few no a couple yeah.
I actually, the only time I've ever been arrested, I was picked up on the incline in Monaco. Oh, yeah? I was knocked out and was woken up by a cop picking me up off the ground in the middle of the night.
Why were you knocked out? What happened? Did I not tell you the story? No. I mean, let's tell everybody.
Well, it's just us, right? Yeah. So I was over-served in the casino, in the grand casino.
I don't know. Over-served.
Yeah. I mean, it's completely irresponsible of them.
But so I'm gambling. Sir, are you sure that you would like another? You've had 30 drinks already.
So I'm gambling like I think I'm James Bond, and I'm winning all these large rectangular chips, and I'm in a leopard suit, you heard me. Are you? I'm in a leopard...
Shirt and tie or t-shirt? No, there's no tie. It's wide open down to the navel, and this leopard suit made by Costume Nationale.
I mean, it was super... Douche level was super high for me.
I was 20 maybe, I think. Well, yeah, what year was this? Because it's highly relevant.
It was like, let's see, if I was 20, it was 89. Hello, math.
Or 90, 99, something like that. I was born in 89.
Does that make you feel old? Yeah, it should. So anyway, so I'm all banged up and it's four in the morning and I need a ride back to my hotel, which is just outside the city.
And I can't find a cab. So I walk by this newspaper truck, local newspaper truck.
There's stuff in the newspaper boxes because it's four in the morning with today's new paper. And I say to these guys in English because I don't know French, where are you guys headed? Can I get a ride to my hotel? And, of course, they looked at me like one might, you know, with not much of a response.
They just kind of ignored me. So, of course, that upset me because, as I said, I'm banged up.
That's not you, though. That's a French thing.
Yeah, but you look crumpy. But still, I mean, come on.
A drunk American asking some guys filling up a newspaper box for a ride to i mean come on so so they told me to get lost and as i walked by their truck i just kind of smacked the side of their panel truck you know just out of frustration mondia yeah next thing i know i'm i'm waking up but everything's sideways because i realize i'm i'm on my side on incline. They knocked me out, I guess, because they're pissed off at me.
And it's a van that rolls up into my vision, and the side door opens up. It's like a Wes Anderson movie.
And a cop gets out of the van because it's a cop van. And I go, oh, this is so great.
You guys are going to be able to take me to my hotel. They pull me in.
They say, you can't be drunk in Monaco. They take me to jail.
They put me in the drunk tank,

which is one of the most beautiful rooms

I've ever seen, by the way.

You can't be drunk in Monaco

sounds like a Pet Shop Boys song.

There's a beautiful sort of Angora Pashmina

sitting there in the drunk tank

for me to keep myself warm.

And I wake up in the morning

to the sound of qualifying because the little jail you know, jail, the little cop stations right there near the pits. And so that was the engines wake me up and I've broken the heel on my shoe.
Okay. So with this leopard suit.
Yeah. It's sort of like- You should have mentioned you're wearing leopards and leopard skin and heels? Platform groovy shoes.
I mean, I don't know. So I've got the extra heel or the broken heel in my pocket along with the chips.
And the cops want to know if I want to file charges because I have a dislocated shoulder. Against yourself? That's what I realized.
From looking that way? That's basically they said, okay, so you sure you want to file charges because, you know, you're in violation of being, you know, drunk in public or whatever. And I just said, screw it.
And I kind of got in a cab and got home and nursed my hangover and my dislocated shoulder. But that's the only time I've been arrested in Monaco.
Daniel, thank you for coming today. Yeah, Daniel, thanks so much to hear that Jason story of debauchery.
It's one of many. So, Daniel, you won Monaco in 2018 you know your stuff that's pretty good right how how great was that feeling winning monaco is because it's the most famous that's the granddaddy right isn't it it is like the let's say the ultimate ultimate is is the world title that's that's obviously what you want and if if you don't get that or let's say a runner-up to a world title is is winning monaco it's like the it's the crown jewel and it's even from i mean that the circuit is so intense and it's so tight and it's so easy to crash there basically um so kind of like putting it together on that weekend and then with the kind of just the aura of Monaco and I like 2018 was special because two years before that in 2016 I was leading and we had a slow pit stop and then um Lewis passed me during my pit stop and and he ended up winning the race so I was so dark after that because it was it's not often obviously you get a chance to win Monaco and it was obviously a childhood dream.

What does dark look like for you?

I mean, is it just you're just hitting the bong every day

and watching cartoons?

Like it's just...

You a huffer like me?

Yeah.

Or do you climb into the Krispy Kremes like Sean?

Oh, hey, they're good.

So, yeah, maybe for my levels of dark, it was dark. But it was actually funny because that – so the 2016 year, let's say the dark year, on the podium I was dark, call it, and I wasn't smiling.
And all the things that were kind of said about me after that weekend, other than like how unlucky I was, was, oh, my God, like actually can get mad he can get angry because everyone just knows me for obviously just smiling and obviously loving it and having a good time but it was just funny that i think everyone just thought like i don't have the ability to feel hurt or anger and uh they were like oh somebody poked the bear here he comes and he did yeah well i want to know something. I don't know anything about you personally.
Did you have somebody to celebrate your win with? Are you married? Do you have a girlfriend? Do you have children? Easy, Sean. Sorry.
I don't. I'm not married.
No kids. I was very fortunate because 2018, the year I won, I had mom and dad there.
I some of like my best mates there who were kind of obviously there to see me but also like coincidentally doing a bit of a europe trip at the time so yeah oh the aussies love to get around the world don't they oh yeah they love oh coming soon to a bar near you drunk aussies i mean am i right i know i i love them though. I love Aussies.
I love hate. I love, as a Canadian, I love you Aussies.
Americans love Aussies. I do.
I love Aussies and I love Australia. I've been, I've been a number of times.
I think it's an awesome, awesome place. So, so you've got all your friends over there.
You've got mom and dad, but you've got no significant other. Have you ever been in a relationship is what sean wants to know yeah i yeah i i have and um i think like long story short it is hard yeah i bet with the schedule yeah the schedule and you kind of need it for the sport but it kind of teaches you to be selfish you know like you you have to kind of go all in to like your own basket yeah and even like i'll

notice even like with family or friends because formula one is so intense and everything's like so strict on time and if a mate is late for dinner by like 10 minutes i'm i'm pissed i'm like you've wasted 10 minutes of my time so some things of like that i've kind of grown with the sport i do resent resent in my personal life. But it's kind of a necessary evil, if you will.
But you do have self-care in the sense that, like, I noticed you live in Monaco. And I guess you spend a lot of time over in the UK because that's where McLaren is based.
So you must go back and forth quite a bit to the UK. Is that right, I'm guessing? Yes.
And I, so Dax said you are an Anglophile. What? I had to look up what that meant.
No, you misheard this. He said asshole.
Dax said that about me. He said you're an Anglophile, which is that someone who like wants to be British or something like that? Something like that.
But it just has, great deal of sort of reverence for. And I'd say guilty as charged.
Okay. And I love that Dax said that because it always makes Dax laugh.
Because every time I'll mention like, oh, yeah, I was with my friend, I go, let me guess, your bunny's from London, you know? Oh, Barney's always got, because he calls me Barney. Will's impression is...
It's so good, right? Yeah, it's good. Wait, do you know, like, in other sports, Daniel, like in football and stuff, people, there is a ceiling of when you reach a certain age.
Is that true in your sport as well? Do people age out or are there people of a certain age still doing it? I would say it's uncommon to go like beyond 40. I wonder why that is because… Reaction time.
Oh, yeah? Yeah. Oh, is that true? I would say it's got to do with maybe some, yeah, like reflexes and that.
And you can't be a fatty either, right? You got to fit in those small cars. Here we go.
Yeah. Oh, here we go.

Let's talk to me about how you manage your water weight and everything.

Do you drink a lot of electrolytes?

It's very like as soon as we tell someone how much we lose during a race,

just through your sweat and obviously fluids, everyone's like, I need to become an F1 driver. I need to lose weight in two hours.
What are you good for about... By the way, you're about to make Bateman cry when you tell him how much you lose.
Let me guess. You drop between five to 10 pounds in water weight per race.
Yeah, exactly. Are you kidding me? Are you kidding me? Is that true? I would say on average around like two and a half kilos, which is what's that, like maybe seven pounds? Sure.
Wait, how do you do that? How do you dress so quickly? From sweat, dude. Oh, just sweat.
Okay. Yeah.
Is there any way we could just put Jason's face in an F1 car? Could we just do that just so it could lose? I could take two to three kilos out of my face right now. It'd be great.
I can only see like basically from breasts above. It looks okay from here.
They shouldn't be breasts. They should be pectorals.
Let's start there. Yeah.
What I'm going to do here is I'm going to just tilt my camera up. Oh, no.
Oh, no. There's the angel.
Look at the sweet angel. Wait, So what I was going to say before was, so you spend a lot of time in the UK.

But then, because you go back and forth and fuck Dex.

But then you also spend, you also live in Los Angeles part of the time.

You own a house in Los Angeles.

It's quite near all of us, I think.

Not that I've Googled, but I have.

Weird.

And it is.

And I think we're practically neighbors, Daniel.

What's in the garage over there? Yeah, that's what I was getting that was my next question what's your LA car so so being being the bogan Australian that I am um we we call I mean we call them utes back home but because we don't really have anything big enough to call a truck so when I when I uh got my place in in the, I was like, first thing I'm buying is a Raptor. So I have a Raptor.
It's obnoxious. This is the most disappointing thing you said.
First of all, it's so Inland Empire. No, it's so Inland Empire of you, first of all, A.
Your GMC contract is safe, Will. Let me just say this.
Friends don't let friends drive Fords. You know, GMC.
Oh, Lord. GMC Sierra is a tremendous vehicle.
Is this a plug? Will's been doing the commercials for GMC for, what is it, Will? 25 years? 22. Coming up on 23 years, I've been the voice of GMC trucks.
Are they professional grade? Well, they are professional grade, Jason. Thank you for asking.
Yeah. Yeah, he's the guy.
Look at Daniel. I'm seeing, this is the first moment I've seen Daniel's face.
Respect you, Will. Right there.
It just was like, oh my God. Wait, I'm going to drive over to your house in a brand new GMC Yukon XL Denali, Daniel, and I am going to make a convert out of you.
Wait, so you spend time in Los Angeles. My point was this.
That kind of must be for you, the real getaway because Formula One is not huge in California. In Australia, I imagine you're a, I know you're a bit of a superstar and Australia loves you and they've embraced you.
When you're in Europe, everybody watches Formula One. And so that you're getting not harassed, but like you're Daniel Ricciardo F1 champion driver.
You come to Los Angeles, it's kind of of you get to have a little... You can walk around.
Yeah, you can walk around and kind of have a life, right? Is that, am I right with that? I'm blushing now. But anyways, LA, like you're right.
Like there's two main reasons. Like F1 is not very existent there.
So you kind of can, it's more for me as well to like mentally get away from the sport and switch off. And I'm not, I'm not surrounded by F1 people or F1 enthusiasts.
So it is like a good escape. And then it also reminds me a lot of home, you know, it is like, you know, we've got the weather, we've got the beaches.
Yeah, it's like a bigger, a bigger version of home. So there's, there's like, I won't't lie like there's a bit more to do there.
So it's entertaining for me, but I can also just kind of switch off and lay low if I like as well. Sure.
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What's the keeping in shape like for Formula One?

Is it how, you know, I'm kind of the guy, you know, on this podcast,

I'm kind of the workout guy.

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Pushing weight around, yeah.

He's constipated right now, but.

You can tell.

I could see your pictorials and not your breasts. There it is.
it is thank you oh no jason got breasts and i got pictorials you sure do so hurtful so wait so but but in in all seriousness what is that what is that like in terms of you have to be in great you've got to be in great shape jesus you've got to be in great shape to do that and we talked about losing all that that water weight. I mean, it's demanding physically, isn't it, being in those cars, just doing one race? So there's a few challenges to come with, let's say, like the physical demand of the sport is that it's a lightweight sport.
So I think in the perfect circumstances, we would be like a lot heavier than what we are in terms of just, I think we'd love to put on more muscle if we could. And why we need the muscle is basically for the G forces.
So like Silverstone, for example, the track in England, through some parts of the circuit, we're pulling like 5.5, so five and a half Gs through the corner. It's wild.
So is that because of the speed of the turn or the fact that the turn is so flat that that there's no sort of banking that that can offset the g's it's mainly the the speed of the turn so there's like there's several corners where seventh eighth gear so that there's there's eight gears in an f1 car and yeah so like one of them or two of them are eighth and it's i don't know like whatever 190 mile an hour through through some of these corners and we're just so we need like a lot of strength through our neck our core don't need a lot of leg strength though do you do you ever work your legs so like our right leg not crazy for the accelerator but for the brake i think if anyone drove got to like drive an f1 car, probably the biggest thing they'll say is how hard you have to smash the brake pedal. Oh, wow, really? To get performance out of it.
Wow. Yeah, it's mainly like, yeah, I guess, blue and carve.
So we do some stuff for that. But again, we kind of have to do all endurance-based.
I like I could do okay with that because I've got a pro, I've been describing as having

a pro dumper. And so like I have a lot of glute strength.
You sure do.

I'm tough to get off the puck because I have this pro dumper that I kind of get.

So I'm just, yeah. No, we got it.
So the, you know, what they teach you is to drive with one

foot, you know, unless you're driving a stick shift and you got to work the clutch with the left foot. You guys don't have a clutch, yet you're still using the left foot for the brake.
I think you guys are doing it wrong. I think it's unsafe.
You tell them what to do. Yeah.
No, just use just the right foot. So you're either on the gas or if you need to come off the gas and get on the brake, you still use the right foot.
They probably haven't even thought of that. I don't.
So. I'm going to start that.
So. You know, it's just safer.
Oh, good. So.
Yeah. So.
Yeah. Now, do you miss a clutch? No, let him tell you why they don't, Jason.
Let him tell you. I don't know anything.
Explain the mistake. No, it's okay.
So actually, in a road car, I will do right foot braking. And I think because there's also like a lack of urgency on the road.
You know, So you've got time to get off the throttle, get on the brake. Where in racing, we nearly overlap.
You know, like as soon as we come off the throttle, we're smashing the brake. And also the steering column runs right down the middle, kind of in between our legs.
So to get our right foot across, I don't even know if it's physically possible. And then you've got all the buttons on the steering wheel.
Those are all the shifting the gears and shit? Yeah. So we do have a clutch, but it's on the steering wheel.
So it's like a hand clutch. So you're engaging the clutch as you change the gears or no? Don't you just, isn't it on demand? Just for the start.
So just to take off, we use the clutch. Okay.
And then it's all just, we can like flat shift. I want to know, when you said you go to Los Angeles to chill out and everything, do you like the breaks in between races? Are you just constantly thinking about it, waiting to get back and you love it so much? Or does your brain need the break from constantly going? I think I've always had, like, yes, racing is my passion, but I've always loved just other things as well.
Like, I don't live and breathe it. So, yeah, I do enjoy breaks.
I do enjoy doing other stuff. What do you like doing? Yeah, what do you like to do? What do you like? Where can Sean take you next time you're in LA? Yeah, that's a great question.
You like tapas? I love... I love sports.
I'm a big sports fan. So just seeing live sport makes me happy and live music.
Ice hockey. I love music.
Jack. Wait, wait, wait.
Did you say ice hockey? You like ice hockey? You know what? I have not been, but I would love to go to a game. Well, done.
Consider it done. Okay.
So you guys F1, and then I'll be a guest at ice hockey. I think you just told us to fuck off, didn't you? Wait, what? So you guys F0.
I'm pretty sure that's what you said. Can we rewind that real quick? F1, F1.
Okay. So now listen.
So you like watching sports? You like… You're a gamer. I assume you're a gamer.
No. Oh, really? No.
You'd be good at gaming. Yeah, but I'm the kind of cooler generation.
Like, I'm a bit past that. So I'm more you guys on that level.
Sure. No, no.
Don't misunderstand Will. He's got a headset probably just out of frame right why did you tell him we're just becoming best friends he and i are better friends than him and dax tell him where to find you you know what's your handle is it are you a gamer is this is this like i'm a little bit of a gamer it should be noted for a guy who guy who's 51, who has very little gray hair, I might add,

and probably looks more like 32,

you're looking at me like, hey, we're the same age.

I'm surprised.

I know.

Did you say 31?

Thank you so much, Daniel.

We've noted that, and that is on the record officially.

We just cut our teaser.

So you don't game. You like to't you don't game you like to you like to watch sports you like to play sports you like to play basketball right i know that you like to sort of keep active in that way uh what others like are you like a big movie guy what do you do you have so many how do you fill your day travel all the time i mean so i love playing sports but on the movie thing, it reminded me of, so some of my core friends from back home in Perth, like some childhood friends, so I won't see them for like a year.
Like I'll get home for Christmas. And they're pretty good.
Like they know not to like pest me with racing questions and they don't really care too much either. And we will, we will like sit around a table and have a few drinks.
And for hours, our conversation is just movie dialogue. It's just movie quotes and it's, it's the most immature conversation.
But yeah, I, that reminded me very much of what a lot of... What have you loved lately that's come out? Because I'd start imagining that you guys would be laughing about some comedies that come out.
I mean, to Will and to Sean, too, has there been a great comedy film that's come out for a while? Game Night. Game Night was hilarious.
By the way, Jason, you remember Game Night? Bingo. That's all I'm fishing for.
Thanks. We can move on.
I'm actually being totally honest. It's a great...
I'm being totally truthful. That is one of the last times I laughed out loud in a movie.
I agree. Those guys did a great job with that.
Game Night, when it came out a couple years ago, I've told you, it's so good. And I say this to Jason all the time.
I want him to do more pure comedies because he is the funniest dude. And it's one of the only nice things I'll say about him today.
But the other thing is, have you guys seen, and I told him this when I saw it, and I watched it again last night with my kids, and I shouldn't have. It's a little irresponsible.
I watched Palm Springs with my kids. Have you guys seen that Andy Samberg's movie from last year? No, didn't Bennett's brother direct that and write it? And our friend Bennett's brother directed it.
Max Barbacow directed it. It is a brilliant movie.
It's so funny. Daniel, watch this movie, Palm Springs with Andy Sandberg.
Yeah. It's a phenomenal movie.
I really... That'll give me a nice little California fix watching that.
So... You will love it.
Speaking of Sandberg, so that reminds me of Hot Rod. Yes.
One of the worst lines ever that I'll randomly say at times is, boom, there's the flavor. Is that a Will Arnett line? Will, are you in that? Yeah, that's a Will Arnett line.
You say, boom, there's the flavor? Yeah. All my friends will look at me and it's so random.
Give Daniel a quick live reading of that right now. I don't do this.
Three, two, and action. There's the flavor.
Oh, there you go. Sully, you chode.
What do you say? I got to kick you in the nuts or something? Sully, I say, what do I say? I think I owe you a nut shot. I barely, I did that movie, I did that movie with Sandberg and those guys, the Lonely Island guys, and I, Kiva directed it, and Jorma's in it, and I went up to shoot in Vancouver, and I got a really bad cold on the way up there, and so I was on cold medicine for the few days that I was there.
I was, I barely remember being there. I was on so much cold medicine.
And so I did all of that stuff. Like even that when I'm yelling out all that, babe, babe, babe, I was just doing it to make those guys laugh.
And also I guess I was just in some kind of other, I was high, I guess, on cold medicine. Well, Jesus, hang on a second.
I mean, what were you on like Robitussin or Theraflu? Like this doesn't get us high. No, I was on— Did you have a sidecar of meth? Hang on.
Let me—I was on a thing that was called Chrystal Methamphetamine. Yeah.
Yeah, there we go. Oh, Crystal Methamphetamine.
Yeah, I'm going to have to have a little side chat with you after this session. Chrystal.
Oh, Daniel. Daniel, we've taken up way too much of your time.
I got to say, I'm just such a fan of how you hold yourself. I've been watching you go from Red Bull to Renault, and then now you're with McLaren, and you've just always, truly always have a smile on your face in the best way.
You had a great race at Silverstone. Your fifth place was great.
I feel like you're just coming back into your own. You're such a great dude and an awesome driver to watch, and it's been such a pleasure to meet you.
Yeah, such a pleasure to meet you. Thank you for coming on.
Yeah. Very, very nice.
Thanks. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
It was good to meet you all as well. You too.
Wait, wait. Last question is, so you and Dax are friends? I've got to get to the bottom of this.
So I went on his podcast last year, and one other thing, I love his bikes. I love motorbikes.
Oh, he loves motorbikes. Yeah, so we kind of hit it off through talking bikes, and then, yeah, when I was, I spent i actually couldn't get home for christmas because of the quarantine and all the sure this let's say the craziness with australia so i spent christmas in la and um and we caught up and uh and we went riding and stuff so yeah we uh cool we hit it off like two school kids yeah he's the he loves that stuff he's the best he's a he's a friend of all of ours and he was our first guest that we had on our podcast because we love him so much.
And so I get it. Two good guys having fun on motocross that none of us do.
So we can't join you on that. But anyway, well, what a pleasure, man.
Thank you for coming by and I wish you all the success and can't wait to see you in Miami. The three of us are going to be there with you in Miami.
Yeah, we're really looking forward to that. Should we just call? We'll call you once you're down there or should we call you beforehand? When we land.
We'll text you when we land. You just said the laminates over to the hotel.
Okay, great. I was going to offer to pick you up in the jet on the way.
It's a detour, but I can do that. That sounds better.
Even better. Even better.
Even better. We love Jets.
We love Jets. All right.
Well, you go get your thoughts together. You've still got time to hit the casino tonight, I'll bet.
And make sure you arrange transportation before you get in there. And a pleasure talking to you, my friend.
Yeah, thanks, Daniel. Such a pleasure.
Best of luck the rest of the season. Thank you.
It was, yeah, likewise. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
And I hope you guys are enjoying it as well. We are.
This is all relatively new for you, right? Yeah, it is. About a year, yeah.
We, we, and we are loving Formula One. It's amazing and it's so good.
And we're, I'm rooting for you every single week. Thank you.
Keep it going. All right, pal.
We'll see you guys soon. Thank you.
Thanks, buddy. Thank you.
Cheers. Bye, bye, bye.
Bye. See ya.
Will, a very classy booking there. Right? Yeah.
Really cool. I know nothing about, I really, really, really do want to do, try what he does once.
I really want to do that racetrack thing where you go, right? I'd probably be going like 40 miles an hour. Sure, we'll go to Monaco, just show up and just say, hey, can I pop in? Yeah, it'd be so cool.
There's a place in Atlanta I can take you to. Or even here in LA.
Yeah, we can go up to Willow Springs. I really do want to do that.
Yeah, you should. It's a really fun thing to do.
Or just do that Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach. Do they still do it? It's a celebrity race.
I think they do. I think I'd love to do that again.
We should all do that together. All jokes aside, you know thatason's won it three times are you serious i um i've done it four times and i think i finished first second third and fourth i think that's wow i didn't know that you like to do yeah yeah and then i foolishly accepted an invite from mitsubishi to race professionally for um a couple of races what in their sport truck series and i raised when was this this was when i was 23 or something like that um and i raced it my my professional career lasted two races i uh i raced or no three maybe it was a lime rock and then maybe it was two and then pocono and there was a spill in front of me and this guy was skidding across the track and i t-boned him and my car or truck, it was a sport truck, flew up in the air, we were doing about 130, landed on its roof and skidded to a stop and the impact was so hard that it sent my front left tire up through the wheel well and broke my left ankle.
And after I slid to a stop, I was like, that'll do it for the for the professional stuff i'll let you know my cheesy celeb ass get out of here and wait a second i i did not know this i thought i knew everything no there's a whole actual sequential of this crash that national inquirer got um back in the day which was was so great for me because i got to see it because it wasn't televised, you know. It was a silly little race.
Anyway. That's wild.
I didn't even know that you had done this, though. That's what's so crazy.
I mean, I've spent hours when you and Amanda are away going through your stuff, like in your house. Wait, what? Well, why don't you have me on the show? You should have me on the show.
We should have you on the show. It would be great to finally meet the real you.
Hard to schedule. It is hard to schedule.
Is it? Yeah. But how great is Daniel, though? I mean, talk about...
It does boggle my mind, and I like what you said, Sean, which is like, how do you... What is that feeling, that first time going around? I know, because when you get...
That's what I want to experience. I want to do that.
What is that? When you're allowed to speed. Right.
Right? Yeah. When you are given permission to go over 110, 20, 30, 50, whatever that is.
I remember Dax flew through Frankfurt and he, because he wanted to go to that famous, what's that famous track that you can go to? Like on Sundays, it's open to the public. The Nürburgring.
Nürburgring. So Dax goes and he rents a, through like Hertz, he rents a Porsche to pick up at the airport in Frankfurt.
I did the same thing except I got mine in Monaco and drove it all the way up there. Which is probably fun.
Realized too late it was $5 a mile. Oh, are you serious? Yeah.
Wow. True story.
Wow. Well, at that time it was probably five lira.
I mean, think about it if you. It was a long time ago.
Yeah, it was a long time ago. I paid in spices and rugs.
So Dax likes to Frankfurt and he goes to like, you know, Avis or Hertz or whatever. And he goes, they're like, they give him the keys to the Porsche.
And he goes, how do I get to the Nürburgring? And they're like, I'm very sorry, but you cannot take this car on the Nürburgring, of course. It goes without saying.
You cannot do that. He goes, oh, yeah, no, no, I'm not going to do it.
But anyway, how do I get there? And they're like, we are very serious. You must not take this car on the thing.
And he goes, no, I totally won't. I totally won't.
But so just tell me which one. And, of course, he got in it.
I think K-Bell was with him too. And they just drove out there and he popped on that thing in this rented Porsche.
He said it was wild. There was a Sunday's open to everybody.
He said there were like people going in like trucks with like campers on the back and like, and then like dudes in, in Maseratis going 200 miles an hour. It's really cool.
That'd be fun. Right.
If the three us went and did that? Oh, my God. Yeah, we'll save it for the European tour.
Oh, yes, for the European. Shh.
I'll talk about the European tour yet. Don't talk about the European tour.
Don't talk about the European tour. Wait, are we going to do a domestic tour? What cities are you guys going to? We're already doing a domestic tour.
Yeah, well, maybe we'll take this opportunity to remind our listener what's here. Oh, yes, that's right.
Sure, sure. What dates? Are you going to go to Toronto? I don't know.
Where would you go after Toronto? And what dates are you going to be in Toronto? You go to Boston. Are there any tickets left even? I go to New York.
There are a few tickets left. Check out SmartLess.com.
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T-shirts, hugs. I do love a hoodie.
You know what? My favorite thing, though, that he said all the entire interview is, Bye, there's the flavor. Bye, there's the flavor.
No, it was boom, there's the flavor. That doesn't count.
That doesn't count. No, it's boom no it's boom Sean hang on I gotta pause for a second please that was so fucking sloppy it was sloppy it was aggressive it was aggressive maybe only the fifth word you've said in an hour yeah I'm sorry you just sitting there fucking cherry picking waiting to do the bye did your fucking what happened did your toaster just go off like all of a sudden you had to get out of there what the fuck is going on with you my ezekiel bread just went off how about how about instead of if you don't need to do that if you want to just wrap up how about just look at us like an adult and just look at both of us and just go daniel ricardo it was great for him to be here today, even if it was just a drive-by.

Oh, beautiful, with the drive and everything. Bye.
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